A suburban Chicago coroner pleaded guilty today to obstruction of justice and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and resigned from his job, one of the highest elected positions in…
In 1995, a sister of Katherine Klyce was murdered in her home by a drug dealer. It took a decade to find the slayer and still that didn’t bring closure…
Federal authorities have arrested 111 doctors, nurses and other professionals in nine cities in what is being billed as the biggest Medicare fraud bust ever.
In the last few years, several U.S. agencies have raised the value of human life by millions of dollars, a calculation that justifies tougher regulations in a cost-benefit analysis.
Convicted in 1995 of murdering a rabbi, Jabbar Collins was freed from a New York prison last year after a key witness told a federal court that a prosecutor in…
An assistant public defender has been granted a temporary protective order against a Pennsylvania judge with whom she works at the York County Judicial Center.
What laws authorize mass evacuations in the event of a terrorist attack? How should courts deal with medical shortages during a biological or chemical disaster? When should lawyers and judges…
A Connecticut lawyer who applied for a staff attorney job with a state worker’s compensation agency wound up suspended over misrepresentations on his resumé after the woman assigned to check…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is apparently troubled by some employers’ practice of excluding those who are unemployed from consideration for job openings.
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